Author Archive: nicola

So, I’ve finally got a spare moment to sit down and write. I’ve been away twice in the last ten days to two different – and equally awesome events. First, I was presenting at the Society for Research in Higher…Read more

We have recently set a book club focused on books around play in adulthood from different disciplinary perspectives. We meet once every two months in Manchester to discuss the current book, and thoughts around play and games in general. Sometimes…Read more

I’ve been talking a lot over the last year about the importance of failure in learning, and how play can provide a context for that failure (summarized in this Conversation piece and this article in the Guardian by Andy Walsh). I have…Read more

For years (and particularly when I’m about to give a conference presentation), I’ve wondered how it is that despite knowing that talking at people isn’t an effective way to give or receive information, we still create academic conferences that are predominantly…Read more

On Thursday 10 December 12-12.30pm, Rosie Jones will be leading a session in the ALT Online Winter Conference: Gaming the Conference: can Playful Interactions Engage Delegates? She’ll be talking about the #altcgame that ran alongside the conference last year, discussing the…Read more

A few years ago, Alex Moseley and I wrote a workshop for the European Conference on Games-Based Learning, which presented a ten-step model of game design and exemplified the process by gaming the workshop. Since then, we’ve ran versions of…Read more